Peter Dizozza's CVII Recordings are produced by Joe Bendik, Major Matt Mason USA, Aashish Pathak, Alex Abrash, David Baker and George Parow. Instrumentalists include Peter Dizozza, Joe Bendik, Major Matt, Alex Abrash, George Parow, Steve Espinola, Liam Glynn, Kenny Davidsen, Brian Wurschum, John Kessel and Lach.
Vocalists include Peter Dizozza, Tony Hightower, Laurel Hoffman, Steve Espinola, Liam Glynn & Catherine Russell.
Peter Dizozza appears on recordings by Major Matt Mason USA, Jenn Lindsay and Double Duece
Influences
After I said someone on stage reminded me of a cross between Uma Thurman and Christopher Walken, my friend shot back with: You're a cross between Eryka Badu and Macy Gray. Ok.
Anyway,
The East Village music scene offers the most inspiring music around and it is best experienced LIVE! A benefit from doing live performance is the opportunity to hear other sets. Look at the list of musicians with whom I've shared a bill. http://www.cinemavii.com/Events/EventHorizon.htm
I find a musical idea and develop song content around it. I like selections from all styles. Some things connect with my external experience, like Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Lane, Frankie Avalon, Gene McDaniels, well, let's get obscurely specific... Black Cloud, Wildwood Days, Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever with Lyrics, Togetherness, Point of No Return.... I inordinately like two Elvis Presley recordings, Witchcraft and Bossa Nova Baby. Manfred Mann recorded My Name is Jack. Biff Rose is in my blood.
More ridiculously but with utmost seriousness I draw attention to Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle who recorded: Don't Worry 'Bout Me. I'll Be Around, and It Never Entered My Mind.
Sure I like Louie Armstrong's 30's band recordings.
Moving right along: Kate Bush Cloudbursting, Wuthering Heights
Frank Zappa Burnt Weeney Sandwich, Mothers/Turtles Just Another Band from LA, 200 Motels.
Queen's Killer Queen and Good Old Fashioned Loverboy
David Bowie made an impression since he seemed to be effectively coping with anxiety. In terms of recordings, Diamond Dogs, Alladin Sane, the dread Hunky Dory and the favorite is The Man Who Sold the World.
Genesis Nursery Crimes, Selling England by the Pound and Foxtrot.
Peter Gabriel's solo career is difficult to summarize. He is highly influential.
Brian Wurshum played Home. That is a great funny song.
Sondheim's Mirror Mirror (Who's that Woman?), in fact, as a recording, the entire 70's Follies soundtrack (only that recording), the great Company Soundtrack recording, Someone in a Tree. As shows: Sweeeney Todd, Into the Woods. I like all his work the way I like all of Woody Allen's films, with affection.
The Beatle's reach utter hilarity with certain bizarre MacArtney moments, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/Lady Madonna, Helter Skelter. The brilliant Lennon-like songs are in Help! There's too much to summarize from the Beatles.
The Stones recorded Beggar's Banquet and Let It Bleed....
Elvis Costello's Pump it Up, Green Shirt, Men Called Uncle and all of Mighty Like a Rose. Again, work too vast for summary.
Pink Floyd developed the songwriting style of Sid Barrett to great success. Favorites: Astronomy Domine and Great Gig in the Sky.
King Crimson's shorter songs and the spectacular track, Starless and Bible Black!
Gentle Giant's Glass House.
My gratitude to Procul Harum almost goes without saying, I enjoy hearing everything except their overplayed Bach hit.
Stephen Espinola Bumbling Along is the best recording of 2005.
David Dragov's productions are great walls of sound!
Lenny Malotov does amazing tunings against his traditional blues.
Lach is a solid partying protesting songwriter. His songs are houses built to last.
Jeff and Jack Lewis continue to surprise and inspire.
Groundbreaking songwriter continues to be shared at Lach's antihoot.
Cole Porter recorded a pop version of "Love for Sale" that is memorable. His recordings of his own songs are great... So are Hoagy Carmichael's, and Hoagy's are in movies!
Kander and Ebb did wonders as songwriters to highlight their favorite performers. "Chicago" was always (since the 1970's) a great compendium of great reworked vaudeville songs.
Classical music influences include Scriabin, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Brahms, Mahler and Debussey, probably in that order. I relate to Richard Strauss.
Marc Blitzstein, Leonard Bernstein, even Leonard Lehrman, especially writing about Emma Goldman. The Micro tonal work of Joseph Pehrsen expands the sonic world.
I like the Warsaw and Spellbound Concerti....
Usually movies of song performances by Fred Astaire (mostly with Ginger Rogers) are inordinately well played and performed. My favorite scores are Kern's Roberta and Gershwin's transcendent Shall We Dance.
For a week prior to the release of their big album with the great title I thought Modest Mouse sounded good but I realized it was because I liked some of Talking Heads recordings. The ones I like by the Heads are on their first live album compilation, Air, The Book I Read and Pulled Me Up.
Recently, I'm at least 20 years behind.... Nirvana definitely reawakened my interest in pop/rock music, one song in particular off Nevermind... Cindi Lauper's She's So Unusual is unusually classic.
I like the work of bassplaying composer Pekka Pohjola.
These are some of my musical influences...
With regard to musical theater, at this rate, we can assimilate one musical a decade.
Obviously I'm a product of Western equalized tonality.
The rocksong operas are Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar. They are great. Alban Berg's Wozzeck anticipates them.
I know there's great stuff out there which I can't wait to hear. I suppose it's readily accessible via this myspace.com service.
mostly guys here... uh, Kate Bush, Cindi Lauper, The Roches, Kimya Dawson, Diane Cluck, Jane Kelly Williams, Mary Ann Farley, Nataliya Medvedovskaya... 9/3/06
Sounds Like
Magnetic Fields, Ben Folds, Scissor Sisters, Frank Zappa, Stephen Sondheim... does it?
Peter Dizozza is a musician whose expression of stories and ideas includes words and images. His new project is Fuzzy Logic, A Question of Solitude.
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I'm happy to announce that my new album "Songs From The Films Of David Lynch" is out now.
"Truly unsettling and perplexingly brilliant... testament to both the quality of Lynch’s soundtracks and Truax’s talents" - The Skinny
"Truax is paying homage to a kindred spirit with this album. It's the best kind of tribute – affectionate and respectful, but with its own quirks and imaginative leaps and its own distinct identity." -The Scotsman
Upcoming Concert Reading Peter Dizozza A Question of Solitude
Dear Friends,
On Tuesday, March 31st, The La Mama Experimental Theatre Club presents a first concert reading of A Question of Solitude. This is a premier of my new playscript inspired by the James Bond Legacy very much in need of your input. Please come by at 7:15PM to the box office at 74A East 4th St.
NY, NY 10003 212.475. 7710
for your free ticket. The reading will run from 7:30 to 9:30PM with discussion.
for those keeping track, the scripts originating at La Mama are ...
Prepare to Meet Your Maker, all six episodes (1996)
The Peace Mission (1997)
Witchfinders (1998)
The Storm Cloud Playscript (1998)
Coppelia (1999)
The Eleventh Hour, a ghost story (1999)
The Golf Wars (2001)
TentagatneT (2005, produced in 2007)
O (2006)
HEY! now im not gonna be all sleazy and pretend that im actually saying hello, 'cause its gonna be pretty obvious that this is a mass-produced message. But the good thing is, there are no evil intentions I need to disguise anyway! I'm simply writing cause me and my band are playing a show tomorrow night and naturally we want people to come. It's at Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St. in Williamsburg, and we're on at 7:30. sheesh! If only everyone was this straightforward, people would fall in love more often!
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